I worked with Paul McCartney for a while and saw what it does to you to be treated like a god for twenty years.
Tracey Ullman
My mum would like to see me on the cover of 'Good Housekeeping' demonstrating children's toys with some nice lipstick on.
I love documentaries, I like observing real people.
There's nothing I won't attempt.
I've always been a misfit.
Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?
I just love to impersonate people, and I impersonate people because I find them fascinating.
A lot of stand-up comedy is embarrassing: too many idiots doing it in orange neckties against brick walls. I find most sitcoms embarrassing, too, because they seem so forced.
I wish I could believe that one person could make a difference.
I like infomercials.
I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do.
I used to dress up and impersonate our next-door neighbor, Miss Cox. She wore rubber boots, a wool hat, and her nose always dripped.
I loved the late Gilda Radner. I love Carol Burnett and Lily Tomlin.
I think serial monogamy says it all.
I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters.
As I get older, I just prefer to knit.
I never worked with a dialogue coach before, but I'd hate it if an American did a British accent and didn't do it well. It would be insulting.
I'm sick of environmentalism.
There are different types of love, and my love for my child is like me and my mum. We've gone through a lot of rocky patches, but we never stop loving.
I've always had to create my own markets and I've always been at a juncture in my career.
Great pressure is put on kids who don't have dads to get out and make money, and make life easier for everybody. It was always, 'Hurry up, grow up, make money, there's no man to do it for us.'
I became an American in 2006. It got me thinking about what is my America and what's my perception of America.
You become so encapsulated in this world of being a star. People listen to what you say, you have this voice, it becomes unreal and you become far removed from the people you came from.
I grew up with Jilly and Tamsin driving Volvos. But I wasn't one of them... I always felt more comfortable with Cockney and working-class people. My heroes were the Beatles and people like Michael Caine.
I'm fascinated by Bollywood.
It's sometimes shocking to find out what people really believe in.
I like being the odd one out in L.A. Because if you conform, you become something you hate. I love being the odd one out. It's not about 'Look at me! Look at me!' It's about really becoming someone else.
I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me.
As you get older, you realize it's work. It's that fine line between love and companionship. But passionate love? I'd love to know how to make that last.
Every character I do is based on someone I know.
I don't get very involved in the L.A. scene. When you do get invited out, you are expected to be on all the time. It's just wearying.
I hate clowns.
I hope I never get so hard up I have to do advertisements. I've gotten ridiculous offers.
I like going to France, because no one knows who I am.
I love John Waters. There's stuff in it that's beyond the boundaries of my taste, but his movies have always been like that.
I'm as famous as I want to be.
I'm not a crazy, party-going sort of person.
I'm still that little girl who lisped and sat in the back of the car and threw vegetables at the back of her head when we drove home from the market. That never goes.
I'm usually put off by performers when they get political.
It makes you more open, it gives you perspective, having a child.
It's funny - if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it's them.
It's the poignancy and sadness in things that gets to me.
My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.
The show I did in England catered to a broad range of people. I like that. I don't want nouveau cult status, though I know we've got that sort of audience in the states.
Work is important to me. I want to do things for principle, not just for the sake of doing them.
I don't see myself as a stand-up comic doing cynical, mean-spirited or disrespectful stuff. I'm very aware that I don't like to disrespect people too much.
I just want to do good work.
I'm not a film snob.
It's like a woman's birthright to knit. It's primal. It's timeless. You don't need electricity to knit. You can do it with a candle, girls!
There were no examples of girls like myself becoming successful actresses. To be an actress in England was a serious, upper-middle class girl's profession. I just thought I would never be accepted unless I pretended to become somebody I wasn't.
